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April 2014: COAST Players Summer Drama Camp

NEWS

For Immediate Release

April 9, 2014

CONTACT: Lisa Johnson,

Development Officer & External Relations

Release No: REVISED 22LJ-PR-2014

 

COAST Players Summer Drama Camp COA and YMCA to Offer Camp

Calling all aspiring Annies and Oliver Twists. Registration is underway for College of The Albemarle’s upcoming Coast Players Drama Camp which will be held from June 23 through July 3.

This is the second year the community college has offered the children’s summer drama camp, but this year COA is partnering with the YMCA to coordinate the program.

“We did the brilliant thing of joining forces and it puts everybody’s resources to the best possible use,” said Jeffrey Emmerich, COA drama instructor and director of the COA Student Theatre Players, or COAST Players.

The YMCA will be handling registrations for the two-week camp and gym members will be offered a discount - $130 a week for YMCA members and $160 a week for non-members.

“The instructors,” said Mariah Schierer, manager of COA’s Performing Arts Center, “are COA Coast Players folks.”  

Campers can expect to spend their days belting out songs from musicals, learning choreography, preforming improv and memorizing monologues.

“Usually we try to take a bit from every genre of theatre,” Schierer said. “They will learn a bit about set design and costuming as well. So it gives them all aspects of theatre and not just the performance aspects.”

In addition to playing with costumes, learning about the playhouse’s lights and finding out how the fly rails work – watching the set pieces fly in and out – campers last summer also learned songs from “The Sound of Music” and “Annie Get Your Gun”. Several students enjoyed the experience so much, Emmerich added, that the former campers made appearances in a few COAST productions over the past year.

“We actually gained a few students from that experience,” Emmerich said.

“Over the course of two weeks, they really have quite an experience,” he added. “It’s magic to the kids.”

The Coast Players Drama Camp is open to students ages 12 to 18 and has 35 spots available. Registration is underway at the YMCA, 1240 North Road Street. For more information, contact Mariah Schierer at 252-335-9050.     

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April 2014: Arts of the Albemarle's Upcoming Events

featuredE V E N T S ____ TOMORROW! 5:30 - 7ish 5 1 6 G A L L E R Y featured artist____ Fiber Artist Katherine Wassink M A R C H  events ____ WEDNESDAYS The Painting Place 10am-3pm | Twiford Room $5 donation 4.4.14 First Friday ArtWalk 5:30 - 7pm | Downtown Elizabeth City 4.8.14 Wine & Paint with Jessica Rich 6:30pm | Twiford Room 4.10.14 An Evening of Jazz with the Jae Sinnett Trio, featuring Laura Martier 7pm | Maguire Theater Tickets $15 4.17.14 ArtTalk with Margie Sawyer and Katherine Wassink 10:30am  |  AoA Gallery Free to attend 4.22.14 Wine & Paint with Jessica Rich 6:30pm | Twiford Room 4.25.14 - 5.2.14 8-Track: The Sounds of the 70's Maguire Theater C H A M P I O N of the A R T S ____ Support the arts G I V E   T O D A Y  ____ DID YOU KNOW? Arts improve healthcare. Nearly one-half of the nation’s healthcare institutions provide arts programming for patients, families, and even staff. 78 percent deliver these programs because of their healing benefits to patients—shorter hospital stays, better pain management, and less medication. Arts of the Albemarle is the leading supporter of the arts in northeast North Carolina. Enrich your life—visit AoA today!  ________ I N V E S T in your community  I N V E S T  in the arts! S T A Y connected  ____     AOA presents... A N   E V E N I N G   O F   J A Z Z The Jae Sinnett Trio featuring Laura Martier Two area jazz greats are hitting the stage of the Maguire Theater next Thursday, April 10th.  The Jae Sinnett Trio, along with Outer Banks jazz artist Laura Martier, will be performing together in what is sure to be a spectacular show for jazz fans of all types. An award winning jazz recording artist for nearly thirty years, Jae Sinnett has performed with Branford and Ellis Marsalis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Chuck Mangione, Charlie Byrd, and many others. Both the 1997 release titled “Listen,” as well as the 2006 release "The Sinnett Hearings" reached number one on the Gavin and national jazz charts, respectively.  Hampton Roads area jazz enthusiasts will recognize Sinnett as the producer and host of the popular jazz program “Sinnett in Session” on NPR affiliate WHRV-89.5 in Norfolk, VA, as well as “The R&B Chronicles” on WSNC-FM in Winston-Salem, NC. Thursday's performance will feature the trio consisting of Sinnett, Justin Kauflin, a Thelonius Monk International Jazz Piano Competition finalist fresh off a world tour with Quincy Jones, as well as bassist Terry Burrell. The performance will also feature Outer Banks resident and esteemed jazz performer Laura Martier.  Tickets are $15 and are available at AoA (516 E. Main Street, Elizabeth City) or by calling 252.338.6455.  Downtown eateries Cypress Creek Grill and Sidney’s Bistro will be accepting pre-concert reservations, and a cash bar will be available at the show.  Can't view the video?  Click here. J E N K I N S   G A L L E R Y presentsMargie Sawyer, with the NC Coastal Land Trust Welcome spring with two of the area’s favorite artists, Margie Sawyer and Katherine Wassink. On April 4, First Friday ArtWalk features the work of Margie Sawyer in a special exhibit, “Preserving the Places We Love.” The exhibit is in collaboration with the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust, which seeks to preserve the resources and traditions of the coastal communities of the state. A portion of the sales revenue from this exhibit will be donated to the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. Her painting, “Patterns in the Pasquotank River,” is featured in the heading above. Margie is an award-winning artist who teaches painting at College of the Albemarle, as well as providing lessons at her studio.   READ MORE at elizabethcityhasit.com, or take a look at Robert Kelly-Goss' article about Margie in the Daily Advance.  Photo of Margie courtesy Robert Kelly-Goss.  AnnualP H O T O   C O M P E T I T I O N opens April 15th The 2014 Arts of the Albemarle Annual Photo Competition submission period opens Tuesday, April 15th and will be open through Friday, April 25th.  Approved photos will be the Jenkins Gallery featured exhibit throughout the month of May.  Interested photographers may submit up to two photos that are framed and wired for hanging (ring type hangers and tabletop framed are not accepted).   The competition is in collaboration with AoA’s Photography Club, which is celebrating their 10 Year Anniversary this year. The winners of the photography competition will be announced at an opening reception at AoA during First Friday ARTWalk on May 2nd. All participants and guest are invited to attend.  The juried awards are as follows: 1st Place: $200 2nd Place: $100 3rd Place: $50 10 Honorable Mentions The entry fee is $30 for AoA members and $40 for non-members.  Photographs will be received at AoA between Tuesday, April 15th and Friday, April 25th during regular gallery hours of 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.  Late entries and incorrectly or unlabeled works will not be accepted. READ MORE Encore Theatre presents8 - T R A C K : The Sounds of the 70's Article courtesy Rebecca Cross, elizabethcityhasit.com Are you ready for “8-Track”? Encore Theatre Company is rehearsing now for this 70's musical review with a bit of drama! Talented Elizabeth City thespians are putting the polishing touches on this toe-tapping, smile-inducing show that will have you dancing and singing along. Mark you calendar. Shows are coming up April 25- 26 and May 1-3 at 7:30 p.m., with a matinee April 27 at 2 p.m. Tickets are on sale at Arts of the Albemarle’s Maguire Theatre for $16 each.  The cast includes Dale Brandt (tenor), Joel Taylor (baritone), Lauren Luther (soprano) and Pearl Kelly-Goss (alto). The show is directed by  Erin Garrett, musically directed by Steve Raisor and choreographed by Velda Jones.  Put on your leisure suits, halter tops and platform shoes and get ready to boogie down through 10 years of ground-breaking music! With its propulsive rhythms and dazzling harmonies, “8-Track” is a fast-paced musical romp through one of the most impassioned decades of the 20th century. This Baby Boomers’ dream come true features the music of The Emotions, The Carpenters, Labelle, Barry Manilow, Marvin Gaye, The Doobie Brothers, The Bee Gees, Helen Reddy, K.C. and the Sunshine Band and many more. Rediscover the heart and soul of the 70s with this joyously rousing, moving and often downright hilarious musical in concert! (Graphic and information courtesy of Encore Theatre Company) Arts of the Albemarle (AoA) is a regional non-profit arts council (representing Pasquotank, Gates and Camden Counties) located in Downtown Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the recently renovated historical Lowry-Chesson Building, now called The Center.  This world-class facility houses the Jaquelin Jenkins Gallery, a home to over 250 artists, craftsman and photographers, the AoA School of the Arts, a multi-discipline visual and performing arts after –school instructional program and the Maguire Theatre, a State-of-the-Art 224 Seat performance space.

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